YELLOW BAYOU, AR (Ben Caxton) — A new tourist startup with ties to green technology perfected in testing near Yellow Bayou thanks to a grant from the Arkansas Tourism Development Board is coming to the Delta. Delta Green Air Tours Company President Eustace Charleston Haney said in a press release…
LITTLE ROCK, AR (Ben Caxton) — The murder of two childre in two separate incidents is making news in Arkansas this week. Authorities accuse 40-year-old Mark Lewis of Prairie Grove in Northwest Arkansas of first-degree murder in the death of his 2-week old infant daughter Jessie Kenneth Lewis. According to…
CAMDEN, AR (Ben Caxton) — Remains of an individual suspected to be those of 63-year-old Randall McDougal of El Dorado have been recovered from the site of an explosion that occurred Wednesday along U.S. Highway 278 west of Camden near Arkansas Highway 57. The Arkansas State Police has requested the…
JEFFERSON COUNTY, AR (Ben Caxton) — The naked body of a Vicksburg man was discovered in an Arkansas farm field on Monday. 36-year-old Steven Keith Heigle was found by farmers just before 5:00 PM Monday afternoon in a field near Arkansas State highway 65 in rural Jefferson County. Heigle’s body…
LITTLE ROCK, AR (Ben Caxton) — Johnny Cash is one step closer to appearing in Washington DC. By a vote of 71 to 12, the Arkansas House approved a measure that would replace its two statutes at the U.S. Capitol with ones depicting Cash, and civil rights leader Daisy Bates….
BRADLEY COUNTY, AR (Ben Caxton) — A Saturday afternoon traffic accident in Bradley County, Arkansas, left one teenager dead, and four otehrs injured. The crash occured on County Road 25 when 26-year-old Salvador Romero of Warren lost control of the car he was driving which then overturned ejecting all give…
THE DELTA (Ben Caxton) — A recent study ranks several Mississippi counties among the worst places to live. At number 22 Yazoo County is the best of the state’s worst counties. Poverty-stricken Sunflower, Leflore, Holmes, and Coahoma also ranked in the top 25 worst counties to live in. https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/03/06/the-worst-counties-to-live-in-2/6/
THE DELTA (Ben Caxton) — A new television group run by an investment management company has made a deal to buy four local Delta television stations. Apollo Global, formed a new company last month which will become the new owners of Greenville based WABG, WXVT, WNBD, and WABG-DT2, along with…
STAR CITY, AR (Ben Caxton) — 24-year-old Katley Amanda Johnson of Star City has been arrested by Special Agents of the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division in connection with the hit and run incident at Monticello Saturday night that left a Southeast Oklahoma University baseball player critically injured. 21-year-old…
MONTICELLO, AR (Ben Caxton) — A Saturday night hit and run in Monticello has left a visiting athlete in serious condition in a Little Rock hospital. 20-year-old Joseph Cerda of San Antonio Texas was crossing U.S. 425 just after 8:00 PM with a group of players from the Southeast Oklahoma…
